Chapter 211 Will you protect me for the rest of your life

"Li Jiancheng is here in Hedong!" For Dou Jiande, this is definitely a bad news that cannot be worse. Even though Li Jiancheng led the Jingzhou Army Xue Wanche's troops and the second department of the Qingzhou Army Yang Wen's cadres to add up to only more than 12,000 people, it puts great pressure on Dou Jiande.

If in later generations, if we want to talk about who is better, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, nine out of ten people would say that Li Shimin is better without hesitation. However, in Dou Jiande's eyes, ten Li Shimins are not as good as one Li Jiancheng. Historians commented that Li Jiancheng is as quiet as water; Li Shimin is as strong as fire.

Li Shimin, who was as anxious as fire, lost one military force at Satsuju, two at Li Mi, three at Song Jingang, four at Liu Heita. According to historical records, when he first went to Xueju, Li Shimin suffered from malaria and was ill in the military camp. He entrusted the military power to Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan, and asked them not to send troops easily. However, the two did not listen to the instructions and sent troops privately. As a result, they were defeated by Xue Ju in Qianshuiwon. The soldiers died as high as 566, and many generals were captured. Li Shimin had to lead the remaining troops back to Chang'an, resulting in a "commodation in the capital" (the beginning of this book)

In this great defeat, no matter whether he was sick or sick, the responsibility for the defeat of a arrogant soldier could not be shirked. Besides, with Li Shimin's strict governance of the army and Liu Wenjing was his deputy for a long time, how could he send troops without obeying the orders of the general? Moreover, in this battle, Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan and other Li Shimin's direct backbone all participated. With their loyalty to Li Shimin, if Li Shimin had not agreed to Li Shimin, Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan could not be transferred at all.

Li Shimin's boast about the defeat of Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang of Hedongdao was actually the result of Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan's personal expedition. At that time, Li Shimin not only failed to achieve anything but also lost the war and was removed from his position as the Grand Marshal. Li Shimin sent troops everywhere to plunder and bloody massacre of the city, which made him very famous. When suppressing the rebels of Liu Heita in Hebei and Shandong, he was almost captured alive by Liu Heita's rebels.

In the end, the prince Li Jiancheng's kindness and power were promoted. The prince "removed all prisoners, released his family, comforted and sent them, and the people's hearts began to settle." He pacified Shandong and Hebei for many years. In the seventh year of Wude, Emperor Gaozu ordered Li Jiancheng to leave Qinzhou and Li Shimin went out of Bingzhou to attack the Turks. As a result, Li Jiancheng won a great victory, and Li Shimin was defeated by the Turks and lost Bingzhou. Zhang Jin died in battle. He was scolded by Emperor Gaozu and replaced Li Shimin's power to move to the Shaanxi Daotai with Li Yuanji.

Many people do not understand historical facts and randomly praise "Qin King Li Shimin conquered the Tang Dynasty..." In fact, historical materials confirm that half of the Tang Dynasty was defeated by Li Xiaogong, Prince Zhao, and Li Xiaogong swept across the south of the Yangtze River like a sweeping mat. Shandong was recruited by Li Shentong to surrender, and Lingzhou and Hexi were defeated by Li Daozong. Calculated carefully, in addition to the contradictory and loopholes, Li Shimin had only a handful of military achievements. However, after the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the military genius Prince Zhao, Li Xiaogong, was also under house arrest by Li Shimin.

Dou Jiande certainly did not know the various embellishments of Li Shimin by later history books, but he knew that Li Jiancheng of the Tang Dynasty was very powerful. In the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Jinyang raised an army, Dingxihe, Xiajiang County, stationed in Yongfeng, and entered Chang'an, Li Jiancheng charged forward and made outstanding achievements. Li Jiancheng took the lead in conquering Chang'an, laying the military foundation for the Tang capital to command the world. Historian He Mufeng said: "As Li Yuan's eldest son, Li Jiancheng made outstanding achievements in the Tang Empire before it was completed. It can be said that if Li Yuan was not established, it would be difficult to become Emperor Gaozu of Tang... In other words, with Li Jiancheng, the later Tang Empire."

Dou Jiande said with a gloomy face: "Where is Li Jiancheng now?"

Ling Jing thought for a while and said, "Li Jiancheng crossed the Yellow River in Longmen Yuqiang and has now arrived at Baibi. However, his troops did not stop. Instead, he unexpectedly turned north and passed Jiangzhou. He seemed to have no pause. He continued to go north, judging from the posture, he wanted to station in Jinzhou (Linfen today)!"

Dou Jiande stared at the sand table and looked at the terrain of Jinzhou and murmured: "Do you think Li Jiancheng will give up the three states south of Jinzhou?"

"It's impossible!" Ling Jing shook his head and said, "Li Jiancheng has no choice but to win and cannot afford to lose. Once he is defeated, he will shake his position as the prince!"

"Yes, Li Jian can't afford to succeed or fail! But I can't afford to lose either!" Dou Jiande reached out and tapped the sand table and pointed at the city in Jinzhou, saying: "I have guessed Li Jiancheng's purpose. He is not trying to give up southern Jin, but to go north through southern Jin and kill to Hebei!"

The Taihang Mountains are extended for thousands of miles, with hundreds of ridges connected, with thousands of peaks standing, and thousands of ravines and ditches. At the same time, Shanxi and Hebei are divided into two worlds. However, ancient Chinese ancestors successively opened up passes in the thousands of miles of Taihang Mountains, connecting the east and west. The most famous ones are Jundu Xing, Puyin Xing, Feihu Xing, Jingxing, Fukou Xing, Baixing, Taihang Xing, and Zhuguan Xing. They were called Taihang Eight Xings in ancient times, which are eight throat passages that crossed the Taihang Mountains in ancient times, and are an important military pass on the borders of the three provinces.

Ling Jing exclaimed: "Li Jiancheng wants to seize Baixing?"

"This is possible!" Dou Jiande said with a deep look: "Hebei is now empty. Even if Li Jiancheng leads only more than 10,000 troops, he can turn Hebei upside down."

Ling Jing thought for a while and said, "That's right, but it's not easy for him to think about Baixing. Baixing has three thousand guards, and it's not easy for him to repel Li Jiancheng, but it's very difficult for Li Jiancheng to break Baixing."

Dou Jiande smiled slightly and said, "The enemy changes, we change too. Don't they want to attack Hebei? Then we will rob Li Yuan's lair!"

...

Xingyang, on the third day after Chen Ying occupied Xingyang City, a team of about 300 cavalry and 400 Xia cavalry appeared outside Xingyang City. Without Chen Ying's order, Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui led the cavalry and lances to encircle left and right, but the other party quickly retreated, but did not escape far away. They ran away for a while and waited. As soon as Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui's troops walked back, they chased after him.

The Xia cavalry scouts were light cavalry. If they fought with the hook and sickle cavalry cavalry, the same number of hook and sickle cavalry cavalry could make them want to die. It’s a pity that these Xia cavalry were very smart and played the trick of "the enemy advances, we retreat, and we disturb us" with Chen Ying, but they did not mean to fight hard with the Tang cavalry. Of course, this is mainly because the number of Xia cavalry was too small, and the Tang cavalry in Xingyang City exceeded 6,000, which was twenty or thirty times that of their Xia cavalry.

It was already dusk, and Luo Shixin gathered his cavalry back to the city. Zhang Shigui had set up an ambush ten miles away from the city, but this time the Xia cavalry did not chase him, making the ambush seem useless. Zhang Tugui felt a sense of alertness when he saw the cavalry so alert. After nightfall, Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui entered the city together, and Chen Ying reported the battle situation.

Chen Ying said: "The enemy has become cautious."

Luo Shixin said angrily: "It's all a bunch of cowards, it's too unsuccessful!"

"No!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "The most correct way is not to show off our Hook Scythe Lancers. They are not looking for fighters with us at the moment, they just want to find out where we are going. Dou Jiande must be very worried at this time. We are now abandoning Xingyang and crossing the Yellow River northward."

"What does the general mean?" Zhang Shigui asked, "We don't have to pay attention to them?"

"No!" Chen Ying said: "Since Dou Jiande is so worried, you might as well scare him! As soon as tomorrow dawn, the entire army of soldiers dispersed, searching for warships everywhere, logging wood to build rafts, and making an attitude of being ready to cross the Yellow River at any time. The third update of tomorrow will be gathered and heading westward, killing Luoyang!"

When Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui came out of the Xingyang Prefecture where Chen Ying stayed, they were already close to their son. Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui separated. Their camps were one in the south city of Xingyang and the other outside the north city.

Just as Luo Shixin was leading the cavalry of his guards and was about to pass through the North City, he suddenly heard a shrill cry from a house on the street. A young and not-so-girl-young woman shouted: "Madam, madam, don't be unable to think too much, come here quickly, help me!"

When Luo Shixin heard this, he ran away in a clear direction and followed the sound. The guards beside Luo Shixin followed closely and came to an inconspicuous courtyard. Luo Shixin aimed at the door and raised his foot and hit him.

The door panel, which was almost two fingers thick, could not bear Luo Shixin's heavy kick, and the door panel cracked in response.

With the swaying candlelight, Luo Shixin saw a white silk hanging on the beam of the room. A woman in a green skirt was putting her neck in the white silk. A woman who looked like a maid inexplicably held the woman's legs and howled and cried.

Luo Shixin suddenly broke into the door, frightened the maid and sat on the ground, and her eyes turned and fainted.

Luo Shixin had no time to write in detail, so he swung his gun and cut the white silk without any delay. The woman who lost the white silk bondage fell from the air.

Luo Shixin hurriedly reached out to hold the woman in the rukigun to prevent her from falling from falling from the beam and hurting her. The guards saw that there was only one woman and one servant in the house, and there was no one else. They showed a look that a man knew about him and left the house one after another.

Looking at the two unconscious women, Luo Shixin, a man who had slept on the mountain of corpses and had a bath in the blood, and could not let him blink, was actually uneasy at this moment.

Luo Shixin looked at the shocking marks on the woman's neck, and his eyes couldn't help but fall on the woman's face, and he was fascinated by the sight. Luo Shixin had seen beauties before, such as Li Daozhen, Li Xiuning, including Hongxiu, Luzhu, and even Gao Wenjin and Xu Erniang, all of them looked bad.

Li Xiuning is elegant and luxurious, with bright and beautiful colors that make people dare not look at him directly. Li Daozhen is heroic, Xu Erniang's jasper, and the sisters of Hongxiu and Luzhu are like porcelain dolls. As for Lan'er, she is the younger sister next door. However, among the women Luo Shixin has seen, no one can be compared with the woman in her arms.

I don’t know how long it took, but the little maid woke up slowly. She looked at Luo Shixin and asked timidly: “General, are you a general of the Tang Dynasty?”

This call finally pulled Luo Shixin out of his fantasy. Luo Shixin couldn't help but blushed and nodded, "I am in the Tang Dynasty General Luo Shixin. What's wrong with your wife? I can't think about it and want to find a shortcoming?"

The little maid looked at the woman in Luo Shixin's arms and shook her head. Of course, she didn't know, but she just didn't dare to say it.

Luo Shixin also felt that it was inappropriate to hold such a woman. After thinking about it, he finally handed the woman to the maid gently.

Cui Yingying's eyelashes trembled, as if she was desperately trying to struggle out of that nightmare. This nightmare was too realistic and terrifying. In her family, although her father was not the most valued room. However, she has always been the target of attention in her family and among the entire Seven Sects and Five Hopes. No one would aggrieved her, even her brother gave in to her everywhere. Needless to say, her parents' love for her.

As a noble daughter of Cui's family in Qinghe, she was unable to do her marriage, and eventually married Zheng Zhongmian, who was in Xingyang's Zheng family. But she never expected that this time she got married, she encountered the first nightmare in her life, encountered so many hideous faces, so many people were injured, so many people died, so much blood, so many girls around her were forcibly dragged away, screaming and screaming...

A pair of lewd beastly eyes seemed to be still surrounding her, and a pair of black hands stretched out to her from all directions. Judging from her life of being cared for at the age of sixteen, she has never encountered it! Her self-esteem and her pride cannot be desecrated by these things. She seems to have used a knife to press against her heart?

Then……… At home, she finally protected her and hid in the Zheng family in Xingyang at the cost of more than 100 deaths. She thought her nightmare could end, but she did not expect that this was just the beginning.

A large number of Xia soldiers rushed into the Zheng family. It's a pity that the Zheng family of Xingyang, which was passed down from the seven sects and five hopes, did not stand up to stop the Xia soldiers from committing violence. His future husband Zheng Zhongmian, known as the outstanding young son of the Zheng family, was actually scared to death in front of him.

When the pair of sinful hands reached out to her, her future husband pretended not to see it. Nothing more sorrow than death. Just as Cui Yingying was about to stop herself, the thirteen surviving Cui family servants protected him and broke out of Zheng.

Cui Yingying didn't know how she came here these days. She and her trusted servants hid in Tibet. She couldn't get any support from Zheng. She finally survived the Xia army withdrew, but received an ultimatum for Zheng's marriage.

Cui Yingying exploded now. She would rather marry a dog-slaughter than marry a hypocritical and cowardly boy like Zheng Zhongmian. She would rather use death to free this shackles of marriage.

Finally freed.

Cui Yingying felt inexplicably relaxed.

In the endless nightmare, she seemed to be falling downwards, but at the most critical moment, a pair of powerful hands suddenly hugged him, preventing her from sinking into the bottomless abyss.

Those arms are very strong, very secure, and very warm...

She slowly opened her eyes, feeling that there were shaking shadows in front of her. After a little breath, she felt a surprising pain in her throat every time she breathed, and almost fainted again. She didn't even dare to moan, and waited for the figures shaking in front of her to gradually become clearer.

A strong man over eight feet tall, wearing silver bright light armor, holding a long black gun in his hand.

After a while, she could clearly identify the scenery in front of her. A close-fitting maid looked fast. When she saw Cui Yingying awakening, she shouted happily: "Madam, you are awake. It's great that you're fine, thank God!"

Cui Yingying's eyes turned, but she still couldn't figure it out. In her mind, fragments of memory in a trance appeared, but they couldn't overlap. It seemed that there were a pair of hands that picked herself up from the cold and despair...

Thinking of this, the girl forgot the pain, bit her lips and turned her eyes, not knowing what she was thinking.

Suddenly, Cui Yingying was shocked. Only then did she realize that she was not dreaming, because she saw Luo Shixin's shadow. There would be no shadow in the dream, nor would there be the warmth that could be felt.

Cui Yingying bit her lip, looked at Luo Shixin, and asked carefully: "Did you save me?"

Luo Shixin nodded dullly: "Yes!"

Cui Yingying said again: "Will you protect me in the future?"

Luo Shixin's heart was about to jump out when he heard this. He nodded heavily and said, "Yes!"

"It's not a day, not a month, not a year!" Cui Yingying said seriously: "It's a lifetime, forever."

Cui Yingying was very nervous and looked forward to it very much. She knew that it would be very difficult to find someone she loved to marry. She was even more afraid that Luo Shixin would reject her.

Obviously, Luo Shixin is not a disappointing person. He Zheng nodded and said, "I am willing, don't worry, no one dares to hurt you with me!"
Chapter completed!